EDITOR, The Tribune.

Very many younger people in the Bahamas only have a cursory knowledge of agriculture, farming, and even backyard gardening.

Modern cultivation techniques employ the use of computerised technology, high external inputs in the form of machine fuel (energy), chemicals (energy), and water (energy).

Unfortunately for many Bahamian farming enterprises adoption of modern techniques is still a dream because the resources are not available for the benefit of the local entrepreneur.

The Bahamian government seems to have lost its way in attempts to establish agriculture as a viable sector of the local economy even though the politics makes a lot of noise about self sufficiency, ...

Click here to read more at The Tribune